For UnHerd on the revolt brewing in London's hinterlands amidst demographic upheaval and the new 21st century England being born... unherd.com/2025/04/reform…

I spoke to David Betz about government legitimacy, expectation gaps, and worst-case-scenarios. A pretty bleak one for UnHerd unherd.com/2025/04/is-civ…

"The once awesome magus has been revealed as a syphilitic old soak, his robes stained sacking, his staff a rolled newspaper." Alexander Poots on what the collapse of legitimacy that is the foundation of the state portends.

“It’s a slow afternoon in Ipswich town centre, and Ibrahim is predicting the end times outside a derelict Debenhams…” Vintage Fred Sculthorp unherd.com/2025/05/inside…

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‘Criticism of the proposed mine has focused on its potential impact on land and water. Less has been said about the impact it has already had on the people themselves.’ As Alexander Poots discovers in Northern Ireland, not all that glitters is gold 👇 buff.ly/BRZPO2J

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The Uraicecht Becc, or “Small Primer”, the manuscript is almost certainly of Munster origin. The manuscript has references to the monasteries of Cork and of Emly. Below are the Bríatharogaim ‘Ogam words’

Can’t wait to mosey down to Armagh for the The John Hewitt Society Summer School, where I’ll be chatting to Wendy Erskine about her wonderful novel, THE BENEFACTORS. July 31, 13:30. See you there!

Before selling off allotments Angela Rayner should think again. The 1925 Allotment Act was designed to provide green space for people without gardens to grow their own affordable fruit & vegetables. For many people,they also provide an important outlet for physical & mental

Wrote this for UnHerd a while back. Allotments and the eternal YIMBY/NIMBY conundrum. unherd.com/2023/09/the-wa…

I wrote about old stones and French poets for UnHerd unherd.com/2025/08/why-me…

Who is Margaux Blanchard? Margaux Blanchard net worth? How old is Margaux Blanchard? Is Margaux Blanchard married? Tbh, I don't know. But today I wrote about how Dispatch exposed her — and why she matters: dispatch-media.com/margaux-blanch…

📚✨ Book Launch ✨📚 Join us for the launch of Tony Black’s debut short story collection Anything Strange or Startling! 📖 Reading + Q&A chaired by Alexander Poots 🍷 Wine by McGarry’s 📅 4 Nov, 7pm 📍 Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB 🎟 Free tickets: eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-…

Gore Vidal was born one hundred years ago today. Widely reviled at the time of his death in 2012, today his work seems to have an awful prophetic power - The New Statesman newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/…

Only 2 tickets remain folks @A_Joseph_Black debut short story collection Anything Strange or Startling launch 4th Nov eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-…

For UnHerd on Grantham's inaguaral Thatcher festival, and the new battle for Middle England between the Tories and Reform